Skill 16 Review: I asked students for examples of detail-rich writing that low on the scale of abstraction. We talked about different ways to get detail in your writing:
1. Action
2. Inside knowledge
3. Facts and figures (numbers, proper nouns, etc.)
4. Authentic language--dialogue
5. Emotion
5. Figurative language
Skill 18: Tap the power of figurative language (similes, metaphors, and personifications)
If you weren't in class, make sure you study this Skill. If you missed the beginning of class, please do Assignments 1 & 2 on p. 560. Then practice writing a simile about a character in your narrative--use this "pattern": _____ was so ____, like ________, like _______.
Rank the following similes and metaphors (1=best, 4=worst):
1. I stood transfixed like a bump on a log.
2. She was so elusive, like a beautiful perfume you smell but can't name, like the whisper that wakes you from a dream and turns out to belong to the dream.
3. Exposed like a caterpillar on a leaf, he wolfed down his lunch before taking flight.
4. Your thighs are apple trees whose blossoms touch the sky.
Homework
Make sure you've written at least the first three pages of your Significant Event Paper on Google Docs. (10 points)
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